Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.
Jim Wallis
Recitation: by Male by Female
We talk of communing with Nature, but 'tis with ourselves we commune... Nature furnishes the conditions - the solitude - and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
John Burroughs
NatureSoulSolitudeTalkOurselves
It was hard to write about my dad for the first book because I know how sensitive he is. I knew he wasn't going to take it as well as my mom, who can kind of roll with the punches and is used to having me tell her everything she has done wrong as a parent.
Jenny Mollen
MeMomBookParentWrongKnow
When I'm on a break from writing, I'll log on to Amazon and eBay. The doorbell is constantly being rung by deliverymen.
Sophie Kinsella
WritingBreakBeingAmazonLogRung
We're playing strip billiards.
Roger Vadim
PlayingBilliardsStrip
I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity, my name is no longer my own.
River Phoenix
LieI AmNameSometimesPersonal
Deep down inside me, I knew I could do great.
Riyad Mahrez
GreatMeDeepDownInsideKnew
Give the enemy an inch, he'll take a yard.
Monica Crowley
EnemyTakeGiveInchHeYard
If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.
Jose Marti
LifeDoorSurviveCharitySeeing
Once we see stars with three times the metal content of our sun, the planet detection rate goes up to 20 per cent.
Debra Fischer
StarsSunThreeSeeContentPlanet
There is too much disagreement for disagreement's sake. In a time of persistent challenges that still call into question our most sacred aspirations as a country, we cannot afford shallow callous divisiveness in our public debate.
Cory Booker
TimeChallengesCountryToo Much
The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
Bono
EnvironmentOilCostCoalStill
Scales are not allowed in my house.
Prince Fielder
HouseAllowedScales
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